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...A big vote of confidence in British industry would also raise the morale of Conservative MPs as they contemplate the expected loss of three by-elections on Thursday: Uxbridge in Greater London, Selby and...
...Morales, also now 77, had a mixed view of the “tokenism” he perceived around him....
...Marc FilippinoThat’s our international business editor, Peggy Hollinger. She covers the final frontier for the FT. Thanks, Peggy. Peggy HollingerThank you very much, Marc....
...Getting through winter, one of the biggest factors is morale basically, in -10, -20 degrees weather....
...Additional reporting by Peggy Hollinger and Siobhan Riding in London...
...There is also the risk that after so many redundancy plans, morale will be hit....
...The better than expected performance is a positive end to a year that has seen a number of setbacks hit staff morale....
...Mr Ranque admitted that speculation over the fate of the top team and the corruption probes was affecting company morale....
...These departures, the corruption probes, and management infighting have taken their toll on morale already shaken by a corporate restructuring aimed at radically changing traditional hierarchies and ways...
...“Morale has been nosediving because people haven’t felt they had a future beyond the next eight to 10 years here in Derby,” says Mahef Khan, Unite the Union’s deputy staff convener at the Derby site....
...The strong showing for the new generation single-aisle jet will boost morale at Boeing, which has been losing market share to European rival Airbus’s popular A320 family of narrow-body aircraft in recent...
...Nevertheless, two years of successive redundancy and restructuring programmes have taken their toll on morale — even if many inside the company acknowledge that the shake-up was long overdue....
...Several people inside Rolls-Royce and some suppliers said that while the restructuring programme was widely acknowledged to be necessary, the serial cuts were beginning to affect morale....
...“incredibly important to the overall morale . . . and overall tension in the city”....
...But, for the board, the priority was to restore employee morale, as well as easyJet’s reputation with customers. Ms McCall’s personal skills have never been in doubt....
...Even as he set about restoring morale to the 135-year-old company and ensuring products reached stores on time, a failing under previous management, his arch rival Tesco embarked on its ill-fated US expansion...
...Finally, Mr Vigneron dismissed speculation that he was under pressure from his shareholders over the group’s performance and his restructuring plan, which has badly shaken morale and raised questions over...
...“He will set himself to the task of rebuilding morale,” said one government official. “We have been telling him for the last two months and he is aware of it.”...
...In the past few years morale has been hit by a series of suicides after a wide-ranging restructuring to cut costs and improve productivity....
...Additional reporting by Peggy Hollinger...
...Chavez’s ally and mentor Fidel Castro raised similar concerns in a column written before the first strikes, while Bolivian President Evo Morales also accused world powers of intervening with an eye to the...
...The wounds inflicted by years of Franco-German management in-fighting are barely beginning to heal after last summer’s truce while Mr Gallois must also avert a crisis of morale at a delicate time in the...
...For Alcatel and Lucent maintaining momentum and morale in a competitive telecoms market, while cutting 10 per cent of the worldwide workforce, remains the biggest threat to successful integration....
...Even as Louis Gallois, the European aircraft manufacturer’s chief executive, attempts to boost morale on Wednesday by declaring the group’s second best year in terms of orders, unions are up in arms at suggestions...
...The board’s approval of the A350 on Friday would give a much needed boost to morale at Toulouse-based Airbus....
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